Monthly Archives: March 2014

LeftHand OS 10.5 drive firmware update

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** Maintenance Announcement – NO service interruption anticipated **

We are upgrading our StoreVirtual individual hard drive firmware.

Production and Dev SANs are redundant and maintenance will have no noticeable effect on these SANs, meaning that the OSU systems used by students, staff, and faculty will not experience a service interruption.

Start Time: 3/29/2013 at 9:00 PM

End Time:  3/29/2013 at 4:00 AM

If you have questions or concerns about this maintenance, please contact the Shared Infrastructure Group at osu-sig (at) oregonstate.edu or call 737-7SIG.

Upgrading Vcenter to version 5.5

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On Saturday March 29th at 10:00pm until completed we will be upgrading our vcenter software to version 5.5. This will make the vcenter web client unavailable for about a 1.5 hours.

If you have questions or concerns about this maintenance, please contact the Shared Infrastructure Group at osu-sig (at) oregonstate.edu or call 737-7SIG.

NetScaler maintenance firmware upgrade.

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** Maintenance Announcement – No service interruption anticipated **

On Saturday March 29th at 10pm we will be upgrading the Netscalers to maintenance build of  version 10.1.  Since they are in HA mode no outages or downtime are expected.  In the unlikely event of problems, changes will be rolled back and the maintenance will be scheduled for a later date.

Start: 03/29/2014 2200

End: 03/29/2014 2259

If you have questions or concerns about this maintenance, please contact the Shared Infrastructure Group at osu-sig (at) oregonstate.edu or call 737-7SIG.

Adding vlan to System Infrastructure blade networks

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We will be working with noc to add vlans 22 to our blade centers trunk. This will be done to one trunk port at a time, and one data center at a time.

Start Time: 3/15/2014 at 10:00 pm

End Time: 3/15/2014 at 11:30 pm

If you have any questions or concerns about this maintenance, please contact OSU-SIG ( at ) oregonstate.edu or call 7-7sig

NetScaler configuration change.

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** Maintenance Announcement – No service interruption anticipated **

On Saturday March 8th at 10pm we will be making a minor configuration change to my.oregonstate.edu at the load balancer.  In the event of unforeseen issues the changes will be rolled back and attempted at a later time.

Start: 03/08/2014 2200

End: 03/08/2014 2230

If you have questions or concerns about this maintenance, please contact the Shared Infrastructure Group at osu-sig (at) oregonstate.edu or call 737-7SIG.